Chapter 1: Lost and Found

"Alice would you hurry up for crying out loud! Why are you so slow?" I asked my best friend.

"Oh, Bella cool it. I have short legs and it is hard to keep up with you." Alice countered.

Rosalie rolled her eyes and said, "We are almost to the top, so let's hurry." We were hiking in a forest outside of Forks our home town. Alice and Rosalie really did not like to be out in the 'wild' as they called it, but once in a while I convinced them that this little bit of exercise was beneficial to them.

We continued to hike for about ten minutes through the thick moss covered trees. The damp early morning air was refreshing after sitting in high school classes all day. It was the last week of school at our boarding school, and I needed this hiking trip to remind me of that. I considered it a little push to make it over the last little hump of school.

Little flowers were poking out of the ground along the trail. I bent to examine one. It was a gorgeous red one with little streams of white running out the petal through the middle. Its wonderful floral fragrance had me in a haze until Alice started screaming.

"Bella! Stop!" Alice roared.

"What, Alice? I am just sniffing a beautiful flower." I gave her look as if to say, 'you are crazy, Alice.'

Rosalie turned around and groaned, "Bella, if I ever agree to go on a hiking trip with you again you will really need to keep up the pace. We need to reach the top in two minutes so that I can make it down in time to make my manicure appointment."

"You really are counting down aren't you, Rosel…"

"Bella what did I say! Drop the flower!" Alice screeched again interrupting me before I could finish.

"Why? Alice, it is not like it is poisonous."

"But it is, my dear Bella. What you are holding in your hand is poison oak, or poison ivy, or whatever those poisonous plants are called," Alice was trying so hard to seem like she knew what poisonous plants looked like. I chuckled a little bit at her concern.

"Alice, sometimes you can be so amusing. This flower is not poisonous." I pointed to the flower I was holding in my hand. Then I took a couple steps of the trail into the dense forests. "This one, however," I made sure not to get close to it, "is highly poisonous."

"Come on you guys, I really want to go!" Rosalie whined.

I hopped back over to the trail, being careful not to squish any plants, however it was inevitable that my clumsiness squash at least one. I finally got back to the trail and we made it to the top within Rosalie's two minutes span.

"Hey, Miss Timer, How much time did you allow for us to be at the top?" I asked Rosalie. I was enjoying the scenery from the top of the hike. It looked out over a very circular meadow that had wildflowers throughout it.

Rosalie gave me a look and said, "Five minutes and not a second longer Bella."

We sat at the top for a while. Alice was literally bouncing her seat she was so anxious to go.

"Are you guys ready, yet?" Alice asked while looking anxiously at Rosalie.

"Don't look at me," Rosalie complained once again, "Look at Miss Outdoorsy over there."

I rolled my eyes and then looked at Alice and Rosalie, "I guess we can start…"

I was interrupted by the sound of the low underbrush being pushed around behind us. I turned around to see three guys arguing.

"Edward, I told you we shouldn't have made that turn. It wasn't a trail."

"Well I am sorry, Emmett. Maybe you should lead next time. I am sure you would be better leader. Instead of ending up lost in the woods, we would probably be lost in the Arctic," the leader of the group said sarcastically.

Alice, Rosalie and I looked at these three guys as if they were crazy. What were they doing stumbling around in the forest?

"Well if you two would stop arguing and look up, we might get help," the guy in the back said with long blond hair.

"Shut up, Jasper," Both the leader with the bronze hair and the large bulky man he was arguing with said at the same time.

"Do you guys need help?" I asked politely. Obviously they did, but they were guys after all, they probably would not admit it. The leader and the bulky guy's head snapped up. The guy, who I assumed to be Jasper just laughed.

"Well, Emmett here seems to think we are lost, but I know we are not," The leader replied.

"Really, then where are we smart guy?" The second guy said.

"Emmett, we have just rejoined the trail. The top should be about five minutes away."

"Actually," I said with a smirk, "This is the top."

The Edward guy looked dumbfounded. "Oh," was all he could muster.

"It is kind of a hard trail to stay on. We would gladly help you guys down. It might save the county some Search and Rescue money."

Emmett and Jasper laughed at my joke, but Edward seemed to just pass it off. He walked down to wear Rosalie, Alice, and I were sitting. "I will have to excuse my rude brothers. I am Pp…Edward Cullen, the big fat guy is Emmett Cullen, and the psychopath in the back is Jasper Cullen."

"Hey I am not fat, it is all muscle," Emmett defended himself at the same time as Jasper.

"Edward, I am not a psychopath. That joke is really old!"

"Wow, so you guys are all brothers?" I asked chuckling at their sibling feud.

All three at the same time groaned, "Unfortunately, yes." It was then that I noticed they all had very proper British voices."

"Are you guys from around here?"

"No, we are from Britain, but our father is making us go to a school in town so we get a different feel for a different life," Edward replied kindly is his proper voice.

"What school is it?" I wondered if these would be new people to the school even though it was almost out in a week.

"I think it is called Forks High School, but I know it gets out in a week. We are supposed to spend the summer here, too."

"Well that is cool, we go there too. I am Bella Swan, the tall blonde is my best friend Rosalie Hale, and the small pixie like girl is Alice Brandon, my other best friend."

"Bella, I am not a pixie. How many times have I told you? I am just small for my age."

Edward laughed a very sweet laugh. I noticed a crooked smile crawl across his lips.

"Okay, enough chit chat, Bella we need to go in order for me to make my appointment," Rosalie whined again.

I rolled my eyes and asked Edward, "Do you guys need help getting down?"

Emmett and Jasper replied, "Yes."

Edward on the other hand said, "No, but we will join you ladies on your way down."

I smiled at Edward's inconspicuous acceptance of my help. Alice and Rosalie started down the trail. I followed them with the new boys right on my tail.

We made it down in record time with Rosalie leading. She hopped in her car as soon as we made it to the parking lot. "See you later, Bella. I need to hurry if I want to make my appointment."

"Okay, bye Rosalie, have fun!"

"Bella, can I get a ride back to the dorm with you?"

"Yes, Alice one second," I turned to tell the boys goodbye as Alice hopped in to my blue Volvo.

"I am so sorry to leave so fast, but my friends are in a hurry. I hope I will see you guys tomorrow."

I was just about to turn around and get into the drivers seat when I heard the smooth velvety voice of Edward, "Wait, can I get your phone number. I love to go hiking, but I always have to drag these guys around. Maybe we could go sometime."

I smiled, "Maybe…" I gave a noncommittal answer that would get me into no trouble if they ended up being really weird. I gave him my phone number and I got all three of theirs. I waved bye to them and skipped over to the car.

I pulled out of the parking lot and merged into traffic. Alice stopped humming along to the song that was playing on the radio. "Bella, those guys were kind of cute. I hope we get to see them tomorrow."

"Me too, Alice, me too," I replied smiling and looking into my review mirror to see the guys we had just met behind us.

"Check it out, Alice. Edward is getting yelled at by Emmett and Jasper."

Alice whipped around and laughed. I continued to look in the review mirror. I gave a slight wave and turned on the street that I needed to turn on to get back to the dorms.

EPOV

"Edward, you almost slipped and spilled our secret. Dad wanted us to have a real life experience. If you go spilling our secret everywhere that is not going to happen!" Emmett and Jasper yelled taking turns spitting the venomous words at me.

"Oh relax Emmett. Besides Bella and Alice are giggling at you two yelling at me." I said as I continued driving nonchalantly as if nothing were happening.

Emmett snapped around and gave a little wave in reply to Bella's wave.

"They really are sweet girls. I really hope that we can get to know them," Jasper said from the back seat."

"Well, we will unless someone," Emmett added an 'ahem' looking at me, "doesn't spill the secret that we are princes."

"Oh, relax Emmett; I am not that big of a dumbass."

I continued to drive around the curves as we came to a dead end, "I think we are lost again," I admitted with a grim expression.

Emmett snorted, "So much for not being a dumbass."

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